On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:10:21PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 12:59:41PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > The potential workaround, if you really know what you're doing, is to > > modify dpkg's database so that it doesn't know the other package > > contains the file. I had to do this to install both j2sdk1.3 and > > j2sdk1.4 from blackdown. The file to edit is > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/<pkgname>.list. > > ah, well, i don't know enough to even be dangerous there. i > thought apt (or dpkg) was supposed to handle the > inter-dependencies of things like this without a newbie having > to know all that stuff. > > if "apt-get dist-upgrade" is stuck with "trying to overwrite" > errors, what's the newbie-friendly solution?
Use 'dpkg -i --force-overwrite' with the .deb in question. (As with all --force options, of course, don't overuse it.) -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
